On 16/11/12 01:45 PM, Giulio Fidente wrote:
On 11/16/2012 01:57 PM, Martyn Taylor wrote:
> Worryingly...
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>
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/08/twitter_epic_traffic_saved_by_java/
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> Let's all not jump ship just yet!
Now, not to start any war on programming languages but I always tought
that the JVM was faster [1] (for cpu bound and memory bound tasks)
mainly because has got strong and static typing.
But is it just that?
[1]
http://blog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/07/performance-comparison-c-java-pytho...
JVM is pretty great. Note that Twitter projects are not using Java
however, but rather Scala (and clojure), neither of which outperforms
Java. I think it's not really a testament to how fast Java is, but
rather to how badly ruby VM sucks.
-d